• DocumentCode
    1256947
  • Title

    Software unbundling: a personal perspective

  • Author

    Humphrey, Watts S.

  • Author_Institution
    Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    63
  • Abstract
    This article summarizes the author´s invited talk at the Charles Babbage Institute conference on unbundling held in Palo Alto, California, on 23 September 2000. Humphrey, who worked at IBM for many years and was involved in many of the company´s software unbundling decisions, was in a unique position to offer his perspectives on why, and how, IBM made its decisions
  • Keywords
    DP industry; IBM computers; costing; IBM; copyright; legal issues; software cost; software industry; software unbundling; systems engineering services; Cryptography; Design engineering; Hardware; IEEE news; Law; Licenses; Pricing; Protection; Resists; System software;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/85.988582
  • Filename
    988582
    • Link To Document
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